The NSW Department of Planning and Environment (NSW DPE) has recently released a few interesting open data sets related to population growth forecast in New South Wales. We thought it could be interesting to investigate how the NSW population may evolve in the next 20...

We came across a few very interesting data sets recently, and quite different to what is typically found on open data catalogues: thousands of photographs of Queenslanders across time and geography as well as 250+ historical maps of Australia dating from 1552 to 1950....

Read how we brought to life 10 years of Tasmanian road crash data which then made it to the front page of the local newspaper: “The Mercury: Tassie’s crash hotspots revealed: Railway Roundabout comes in at number one” Our 10 years of Tasmanian road crash data...

The purpose of this post is to analyse how the publication of open data can benefit existing government reporting processes and to emphasise the importance of making open data available in machine readable format. For this we are going to take an example in New South...

We stumbled across an interesting dataset on data.gov.au: “All vehicular crashes on Tasmanian roads reported by Tasmanian police, or in the case of property damage only, crashes reported by the public.” The dataset includes approx. 140,000 records, which...

Only a handful of councils in Australia have opened their data. Our quick research identified Brisbane and Gold Coast in Queensland, Mosman in NSW, Hobart, Launceston and Glenorchy in Tasmania, and Ballarat and Geelong in Victoria. There could be a few more, and...